QUESTION TEXT: Legislator: Your agency is responsible for regulating…
QUESTION TYPE: Method of Reasoning
CONCLUSION: The regulator concludes he acted responsibly.
REASONING: The regulator tried to hire 500 investigators, but he could only hire 400 since the legislator set salaries so low.
ANALYSIS: The regulator gives us new information that shows the legislator is wrong. The lack of hiring was the legislature’s fault, not the regulator’s.
___________
- Tempting, but the regulator wasn’t blaming the legislature for the scandals. The regulator only said the legislature was responsible for the low number of investigators hired.
- CORRECT. The regulator has shown that he is not to blame for the low number of investigators hired. This new information shows the legislator is being unfair.
- The regulator didn’t say that using 500 investigators would have been an ineffective response to the scandals.
- The regulator disagreed with the legislator.
- The legislator hasn’t contradicted himself. It is the regulator’s new information that contradicts the legislator.
Free Logical Reasoning lesson
Get a free sample of the Logical Reasoning Mastery Seminar. Learn tips for solving LR questions
Leave a Reply